Elizabeth Bowen and the art of visuality

This thesis is the first sustained assessment of Elizabeth Bowen’s writing from a visual perspective. By first compiling a visual biography of the author, I argue that Bowen’s responsiveness to art, her relationships with artists, and her knowledge of modern and traditional aesthetics are formative influences on her work. Investigating her assertion that she was a “visual writer,” my discussion develops into an examination of her technique of “verbal painting” through which she reinvents traditional visual modes as a personal modernist idiom. Close textual analysis of Bowen’s fictions forms the dominant methodology of this thesis and facilitates my delineation of her engagement with the Futurist and Surrealist aesthetics in addition to broader aspects of her visuality, including her treatment of the “vividly visual” dream-state to the distinct ocularcentricity of her writing. Ultimately, this thesis seeks to advance our knowledge of Bowen’s visual method and to offer a new approach in which to nuance our understanding of her modernism

Avaliação do Grau de Fidelidade entre a Identidade e a Imagem do Instituto Superior Miguel Torga

O presente trabalho trata de medir a distância entre a Identidade e a Imagem Corporativa do Instituto Superior Miguel Torga. Para este efeito, desenvolveu-se um instrumento que compara os níveis de adequação da instituição a um conjunto de dez adjetivos avaliados sob o ponto de vista da Direção (Identidade) e do ponto de vista dos professores, alunos e funcionários(Imagem). Esta metodologia de investigação teve como base (VILAR, 2006) o pensamento seguido pela corporate identity em que a perspetiva visual aparece com o propósito de melhorar a visibilidade e identificação da organização para uma posição em que é entendido como instrumental na comunicação e da sua estratégia. Neste sentido desenvolvemos um instrumento, questionário composto por dez adjetivos e três logótipos, com o objetivo de avaliar a distância entre Identidade e Imagem por categorias profissionais. / The present thesis is to measure the distance between the Identity and Corporate Image of the Instituto Superior Miguel Torga. for this purpose, we developed a tool that compares the level of adequacy of the institution to a set of ten adjectives assessed from the point of view of the Director (Identity) and the point of view of teachers, students and staff (Image). This research methodology was based on(VILAR, 2006) followed the thought that the corporate identity visual perspective appears in order to improve visibility and identification of the organization to a position where it is seen as instrumental in the communication and its strategy. With this in mind we developed an instrument, a questionnaire composed of ten adjectives and three logos, with the objective of evaluating the distance between Identity and Image by occupational categories.

MINDREADING: INTROVERSION VERSUS EXTRAVERSION

Theory of mind (also called ‘mindreading’), is the ability to explain and predict others’ behaviour by inferring their mental states, such as their knowledge, beliefs, perceptions and desires. One largely unexplored question in theory of mind research is the relationship between personality and theory of mind abilities in adults. The current study investigated introverts’ and extraverts’ performance on two theory of mind tasks: one task involved judging emotional states from pictures of eyes (RMTE task), and the other involved making judgments about one’s own and others’ visual perspective (AVP task). In both tasks, the personal relevance of the situation was varied to examine whether this factor would differentially affect the performance of introverts and extraverts. There was a significant interaction between personality (introvert vs. extravert) and condition (personal vs. impersonal) in the AVP task, with extraverts performing better in the personal than in the impersonal condition but introverts performing the same in both conditions. In the RMTE task there was no interaction, as all participants performed better in the personal condition regardless of personality. There was also a main effect of personality in the RMTE, with introverts performing better overall than extraverts at judging emotions from eyes. Possible reasons behind these and other observed differences are discussed.

Esportes na natureza e deficiencia visual : uma abordagem pedagogica

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

O aluno com deficiência visual nas aulas de educação física : análise do processo inclusivo = The student with visual impairments : analysis of inclusive process

Universidade Estadual de Campinas . Faculdade de Educação Física

Monocular and binocular distance cues: insights from visual form agnosia I (of III)

The human nervous system constructs a Euclidean representation of near (personal) space by combining multiple sources of information (cues). We investigated the cues used for the representation of personal space in a patient with visual form agnosia (DF). Our results indicated that DF relies predominantly on binocular vergence information when determining the distance of a target despite the presence of other (retinal) cues. Notably, DF was able to construct an Euclidean representation of personal space from vergence alone. This finding supports previous assertions that vergence provides the nervous system with veridical information for the construction of personal space. The results from the current study, together with those of others, suggest that: (i) the ventral stream is responsible for extracting depth and distance information from monocular retinal cues (i.e. from shading, texture, perspective) and (ii) the dorsal stream has access to binocular information (from horizontal image disparities and vergence). These results also indicate that DF was not able to use size information to gauge target distance, suggesting that intact temporal cortex is necessary for learned size to influence distance processing. Our findings further suggest that in neurologically intact humans, object information extracted in the ventral pathway is combined with the products of dorsal stream processing for guiding prehension. Finally, we studied the size-distance paradox in visual form agnosia in order to explore the cognitive use of size information. The results of this experiment were consistent with a previous suggestion that the paradox is a cognitive phenomenon.

Visual Biology of Hawaiian Coral Reef Fishes. III. Environmental Light and an Integrated Approach to the Ecology of Reef Fish Vision

In the previous two papers in this three-part series, we have examined visual pigments, ocular media transmission, and colors of the coral reef fish of Hawaii. This paper first details aspects of the light field and background colors at the microhabitat level on Hawaiian reefs and does so from the perspective and scale of fish living on the reef. Second, information from all three papers is combined in an attempt to examine trends in the visual ecology of reef inhabitants. Our goal is to begin to see fish the way they appear to other fish. Observations resulting from the combination of results in all three papers include the following. Yellow and blue colors on their own are strikingly well matched to backgrounds on the reef such as coral and bodies of horizontally viewed water. These colors, therefore, depending on context, may be important in camouflage as well as conspicuousness. The spectral characteristics of fish colors are correlated to the known spectral sensitivities in reef fish single cones and are tuned for maximum signal reliability when viewed against known backgrounds. The optimal positions of spectral sensitivity in a modeled dichromatic visual system are generally close to the sensitivities known for reef fish. Models also predict that both UV-sensitive and red-sensitive cone types are advantageous for a variety of tasks. UV-sensitive cones are known in some reef fish, red-sensitive cones have yet to be found. Labroid colors, which appear green or blue to us, may he matched to the far-red component of chlorophyll reflectance for camouflage. Red cave/hole dwelling reef fish are relatively poorly matched to the background they are often viewed against but this may be visually irrelevant. The model predicts that the task of distinguishing green algae from coral is optimized with a relatively long wavelength visual pigment pair. Herbivorous grazers whose visual pigments are known possess the longest sensitivities so far found. Labroid complex colors are highly contrasting complementary colors close up but combine, because of the spatial addition, which results from low visual resolution, at distance, to match background water colors remarkably well. Therefore, they are effective for simultaneous communication and camouflage.

Service Provision for visually disabled adults by Social Service Departments in Portugal and England: a Comparative Perspective

Este artigo apresenta os principais resultados de um estudo de casos realizado sobre a prestação de serviços para adultos com deficiência visual pelos departamentos de acção social das autarquias em Portugal e Inglaterra. Emergiu da pesquisa que existem diferenças significativas nos serviços prestados aos adultos com deficiência visual tendo em conta que os departamentos de acção social daqueles dois países estão estruturados diferentemente e existem dentro de uma estrutura económica, social, cultural e política diferente. No entanto, podemos concluir que em Inglaterra a oferta de bens e serviços pelas instâncias municipais é mais abrangente, especializada e tem uma longa história de existência. Pelo contrário em Portugal o Estado-Providência tem uma história recente, e às autarquias é atribuído um papel suplementar no que diz respeito à prestação de serviços para pessoas com deficiência visual.

Mental imagery in interpreting – a neurocognitive perspective

The paper discusses mental imagery as an important part of information processing performed during interpreting. Mental imagery is examined to see if visual processing used to remember the source text or to facilitate its understanding helps to ‗off-load‘ other cognitive (mainly linguistic) resources in interpreting. The discussion is based on a neurocognitively-oriented depictivist model by Kosslyn (1994). The overview of mental imagery processes and systems is followed by the discussion of imagery used in interpreting. First, imagery development in student interpreters is described on the basis of a note-taking course for would-be consecutive interpreters organized by the author at AMU. The initial part of the course devoted to imagery involves visualizations of geographical, descriptive and narrative texts. The description abounds in authentic examples and presents conclusions for interpreting trainers. Later, imagery as employed by professional interpreters is discussed on the basis of a qualitative survey. General implications of the use of mental imagery for cognitive processing limitations in interpreting are presented in the concluding section.

Gestão da identidade visual corporativa nos meios digitais: o caso RTP

Relatório de estágio apresentado à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Gestão Estratégica das Relações Públicas.

Identidade visual corporativa enquanto recurso estratégico na competitividade entre organizações em Portugal

Dissertação apresentada à Escola Superior de Comunicação Social como parte dos requisitos para obtenção de grau de mestre em Publicidade e Marketing.